WandaVision Episode 5 EXPLAINED - Losing Control & MCU Multiverse Madness

4. Wanda Is Losing Control

It’s a pretty big deal to start off with that Wanda is unable to control her children. She can’t stop them crying, she can’t control when they age. She’s confused and uncomfortable that she can’t rule over every aspect of her family life, and this includes the way she appears to be losing a grip on Vision and his compliance. Things are unravelling in her personal life not least because she can’t keep her husband and children in check but also because, completely uncontrolled by herself, her brother turns up at her door unannounced.

It was interesting to see Vision break through into reality when he interacts with Norm, hearing him echo the same sentiments about the control being disorienting and painful that Monica shares with SWORD. It’s all this that has earned her the title of the “principal victimiser” and a terrorist amongst the SWORD agents studying Westview. It’s all well and good to say to them “don’t bother me and I won’t bother you” but really she kind of is bothering the thousands of residents in the town stuck under her control.

The one moment where she seems to be completely dominant in her little world is actually when she steps out of it. As she storms out of the Westview boundary with fury in her eyes and gives one huge warning to SWORD to stay away, they have no option to fight back- she can literally control where their guns will fire. She is completely lucid, her accent is back, she doesn’t seem confused or scared- only angry. It goes against any inkling that she may be being controlled by another influence.

It seems that it’s more likely that she has suffered a breakdown that caused a spiral: it caused her to go and retrieve Vision's corpse, then to create a safe bubble in which she can protect herself and her family. What caused it exactly? It could be a number of things honestly, we know she’s not exactly had an easy time of it. One important thing, though, is that it still doesn’t seem like a “premeditated act of aggression”, as Monica says to Wanda’s defence.

We still don’t really know if everything is completely up to her or if she was being influenced by someone else outside of her own mind, but in many ways this episode makes it seem that the only person influencing Wanda is Wanda. So why are things going wrong? Why does Agnes know she's in a sitcom, why do the children know that it's not Monday when Wanda claims it is? Things are getting more and more complicated.